Crime Fighter

With Ready Smiles And Radios, 2 Women Look For Trouble

February 12, 1997|By SARAH RAGLAND Staff Writer

DELRAY BEACH — Joan Hardy and Barbara Libbey were fed up with the vandalism, car burglaries, minor and not-so-minor crimes that threatened to make their neighborhood something less than ``Home Sweet Home.''

So this pair of unlikely crimefighters did something about it.

They became Delray Beach Police volunteers.

It started last spring when the women, who live in Lago Delray, joined the community's crime watch group _ becoming the captain and lieutenant when no one else volunteered.